A publican has described cyber- space rumours that an American satellite used to measure climate change has landed on her pub as “out of this world”.

The rumour was started on Twitter by the Sun’s cricket correspondent John Etheridge, after a video filmed in Surbiton purporting to be the plunging satellite appeared on the Daily Telegraph’s website.

The tweet, posted on the September 25, read: “Apparently, some fragments from the Nasa satellite landed on the Victoria pub in Surbiton.”

Pub manager Jennifer Hale could not confirm or deny if they had fallen on the pub roof.

She said: “I have never been up there so I cannot say if the satellite is up there, maybe there are Klingons up there too.”

Paul Roberts, from Surbiton, sparked the original headlines when he captured footage of what he thought was satellite debris falling through the sky.

It seems unlikely the rumours and the footage are genuine, as Nasa said its six-tonne UARS satellite landed in the Pacific, off the US west coast, early on Saturday morning.

The UARS was launched in 1991 and decommissioned on in 2005, taking six years to fall back to earth – although probably not in Surbiton.